Byte Array

Definitions

1. A contiguous sequence of bytes stored in memory and accessed as an array, commonly used for binary data, network payloads, file contents, and encoded values. Byte arrays are a basic building block for lower-level I/O and serialization code.

   In plain English: An array of raw bytes used to hold binary data.

   Example: "The parser operated directly on the byte array so it could decode the custom binary header without first converting the input to strings."

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